A deadly crash on the rugged Mendocino Coast this week now appears likely to have killed a family of eight — two Washington state women and their six children, though only three of the youngsters’ bodies had been recovered by Wednesday night.
Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said there was still a chance the three siblings escaped the grim scene discovered Monday afternoon on a rocky shoreline north of Westport and were staying with friends or other family.
But the three — Devonte Hart, 15, Sierra Hart, 12, and Hannah Hart, 16 — remained unaccounted for and were thought likely to have been in the family car when it plunged over the cliff at a remote Highway 1 pullout at a time not yet determined.